On Monday, OSNews had the pleasure of talking face to face with Trolltech's CEO and founder, Haavard Nord. Mr Nord discussed with us the new features found in Qt 3.3 (download, changes, announcement), Qtopia and the arising market of Linux in mobile phones as well as in the business computer market. Update: ITManagersJournal hosts a Trolltech article as well.
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It would be perfect to have a managed C++ compiler for mono. That way you could just compile the Qt library and all of KDE to MSIL.
One question. What the hell for?
But unfortunately Gnome will get there first. Most Gnome apps are written in plain C, and there already exists a C=>MSIL compiler (from the dotGnu project), so technically it would be possible to compile the whole of Gnome to MSIL and distribute a single set of binaries for all platforms.
The more the merrier as far as I'm concerned. As a programmer I'm interested in getting stuff done.
This is IMHO the best chance GNOME has to become the dominant desktop. It's really a pity, since I prefer KDE...
Oh, the old "I love KDE but..." stuff. I don't see how compiling Gnome to MSIL equates to being a dominant desktop, but there's one born every minute.
It would be perfect to have a managed C++ compiler for mono. That way you could just compile the Qt library and all of KDE to MSIL.
One question. What the hell for?
But unfortunately Gnome will get there first. Most Gnome apps are written in plain C, and there already exists a C=>MSIL compiler (from the dotGnu project), so technically it would be possible to compile the whole of Gnome to MSIL and distribute a single set of binaries for all platforms.
The more the merrier as far as I'm concerned. As a programmer I'm interested in getting stuff done.
This is IMHO the best chance GNOME has to become the dominant desktop. It's really a pity, since I prefer KDE...
Oh, the old "I love KDE but..." stuff. I don't see how compiling Gnome to MSIL equates to being a dominant desktop, but there's one born every minute.